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Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

news & politics

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27:27

Is White Collar Corruption the New Normal?

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2020/10/12

Fitzgerald got it right. The rich are different. Even in the way they commit crimes. Law and order phrases are shouted from rooftops with respect to street crime, as small time criminals are abused by law enforcement and often overcharged. The reality is that crimes of much bigger significance, and many more victims, are committed in and from the boardroom. While anger is still palpable in many places over those executives not not charged as for their role in the 2008/2009 financial meltdown,

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27:27

The Reverend Michael B. Curry: Advice for Times Like...

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2020/10/06

The world has been through tough times before. Wars, depression, the threat of Armageddon, and racial hatred are all nothing new. And yet something seems different today. Perhaps it’s the result of a generation that focused on the self. The me generation, the culture of selfishness, the enduring power of the work of Ayn Rand and obsessive focus on self esteem. Maybe these things have come together to make this moment as corrosive as it feels. So what the answer? The Beatles said that “all we need

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29:16

Should Donald Trump Make Us Rethink the Reagan Legacy...

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2020/09/29

Day after day people ask “how we got here?” In fact we don’t need a time machine. All we need do is to look back at the political history of the past 50 years and and we can see exactly how we got here. With the rise of Reagan in the mid 70’s we can see with almost GPS precision, that map that got us to our tribalism that so deeply divides us today. We see the meanness, the racism, the quest for raw political power, particularly on the right. And while Reagan may have masked it in sunny

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21:40

Science and Politics are Now Linked

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2020/09/23

If you picked up the New York Times one day last week, you would have discovered that about half of the stories on the front page were directly related to science. Think about what we are dealing with; public health, vaccines, climate change, fires and hurricanes, technology, privacy, transportation, artificial Intelligence, medicine, the frontiers of space and of our oceans and this is just some of it. The future of science is the future of mankind. As a result science journalism has come

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21:53

The Curse of the US/Britain Special Relationship

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2020/09/15

Back on the 4th of July I saw a hat that said, "Make America Great Britain Again." A good laugh, even more so when superimposed on the current relationship between the two countries. Certainly there is that much vaunted “special relationship''. Not just between the countries, in an abstract geopolitical way, but between leaders that have been shaping and reacting to the world at similar times and in similar ways for the past seventy-five years. While Great Britain may have lost its empire, its

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26:36

A Conversation with Brian Stelter

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2020/09/14

CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter takes a deep look at Fox News, its power, and its stars in his new book Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth. My conversation with Brian Stelter.

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20:53

A Spouse Also Runs: A Conversation with Chasten...

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2020/09/08

As the late Richard Ben Cramer so brilliantly detailed in his seminal book “What it Takes.” running for president, as a serious candidate, is one of the hardest, most grueling and challenging things one can do. Cramer wrote about the 1988 campaign, before the internet, before 24/7 news and yet he said even then that politics had become a kind of a public utility, with hot-and cold-running politics any time of the day or night. Today in our hyper politicized non stop news environment it’s even

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18:59

Remember When Diplomacy and the Arts Once Mattered?

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2020/09/02

Imagine a time when diplomacy mattered. When the arts mattered. And when they could actually work together to project America at its best. Oh how we might long for the days of the Cold War. Clausewitz said that diplomacy was simply war by other means. During the Cold War, that diplomacy took many forms. From Richard Nixon showing Khrushchev around an American Kitchen, to Ping Pong diplomacy with the Chinese A little known form of diplomacy was the role that the arts played in the Cold War. Uniquely

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28:33

McCarthy to Cohn to Trump: A conversation with Larry Tye

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2020/08/27

Most of you know or have lived in cities with long streets or boulevards and you know that some of the same stores repeat themselves over and over again. Starbucks, CVS, etc. The neighborhoods change, but some of the retail landmarks remain the same. In a way, history is like that. It goes on and on. And while the neighborhoods often change, there are things along the way that repeat themselves over and over again. In American history, one of them is certainly racism and discrimination, but also our

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23:51

Gail Sheehy: In Memoriam

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2020/08/25

I guess it’s just that we are all getting older, but these In Memoriam programs are coming much too frequently lately…...Over the years I had the opportunity to do five interviews with Gail Sheehy. Beginning in May of 1998 we talked about everything from Men's Passages, to older women, Hillary Clinton, and the changes in middle America. Our last conversation was in the fall of 2014 upon the publication of her memoir Daring: My Passages: A Memoir. My conversation with Gail Sheehy from October of

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27:32

Only The Best People: Why The Best and The Brightest...

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2020/08/24

Donald Trump came to power on a wave of distrust. Americans had lost faith in government, it’s institutions, and the ability of their government to be honest with them. It’s a through-line that begins perhaps with the assassination of John Kennedy, runs through the endless lies Americans endured about the Vietnam war, and continues through to the Iraq war; the lies about weapons of mass destruction. And while Americans often want simple answers, the reality of policy, particularly foreign policy is

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27:27

Why Are Millennials Feeling Left Behind?

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2020/08/17

Every generation faces the challenges thrust upon it by the generation that came before. Today the millennials face the challenge of how they pick up the baton and carry it forward Their contribution, their imprimatur is still being written. Will, it simply be too scold those that came before, or as we see millennials doing in silicon valley redefining the very nature of society. This is what Jill Filipovic bring to the fore in OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind. My

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36:02

Nixon and The Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution

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2020/08/13

Over the 200 plus year history of political parties in the US, something our founders advised against, the same parties have, at different times, stood for different sets of ideas. The Federalists, the Whigs, the national Republican Party, the Democrats and others all have been made up of different coalitions at different times We all know for example that Lincoln and his Republicans were once the anti-slavery party. Oh how that’s changed. The modern Democratic party really emerged with the New Deal

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52:09

Pete Hamill in His Own Words...and Voice

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2020/08/08

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with and interviewing Pete Hamill six times since 1997. There was no subject that he could not hold forth on. Our discussions involved subjects ranging from immigration to tabloids, the lexicon of news to urban America, and even Frank Sinatra. This podcast includes some lengthy excerpts from three of those conversations. First, in a conversation from June 2011, we talked about tabloids, the state of news today, and the way in which tabloids stitched

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20:44

Marilyn

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2020/08/05

58 years ago today, the world awoke to the death of Marilyn Monroe. At her death, she was already one of the most well known Americans of the twentieth century. In death she would become even more famous, steeped in mythology and contradiction, she would become a symbol of her times. The lens of her own dysfunction gave her a unique ken on post-war American. Today, looking at her life gives each of us a unique perspective on how far we’ve traveled in those 58 years. This is the story that Charles

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26:06

Why Are White Evangelicals Primed For Trump’s...

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2020/08/05

Why do self-described evangelicals overwhelmingly support an irreligious commander-in-chief? Why do megachurches demand to stay open in a pandemic, and why is the pro-life act of wearing a mask seen as antithetical to masculinity? In this WhoWhatWhy podcast I talk with Calvin University scholar Kristin Du Mez, who sheds light on how white evangelicals gave America Donald Trump (81 percent voted for him in 2016). Du Mez, the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith

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25:53

Can Local Journalism Rewire Democracy?

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2020/07/31

For journalism, it may be the best of times and the worst of times. The national media seems more vibrant than ever. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, as well as the cable news networks are thriving For these outlets the transition to digital was painful, but somewhat successful. For local news, the story of what happing in your neighborhood, your school board, your city council, is a very different story. Thousands of local newspapers and local radio stations have

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24:46

Do We Have The Strength and Wisdom to BEGIN AGAIN?

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2020/07/26

It’s rare that the laws of physics and our ideas of race and politics find common ground.Newton’s third law of motion says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The American story of the struggle for racial equality seems to be subject to that law. As the Founding gave way to the Civil War, and reconstruction to Jim Crow and segregation, and the civil rights struggle of the ’60s gave way to law and order and Richard Nixon, the election of our first black president would

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26:46

The High Cost of Free Speech

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2020/07/24

We seem to be facing a time when the speech police are everywhere, a time when even the majority of progressive people simply seem to be losing faith in the value of free speech, all the while seeming to want to narrow the words that we can use. “Don’t you see,” George Orwell wrote in 1984, “the whole of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end,” he says, “We shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.” Just what does free speech

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21:46

Christopher Dickey: A Remembrance

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2020/07/20

Christopher Dickey reported from war zones and published many books, including a powerful memoir about growing up with his father, the poet, and author James Dickey. I had the opportunity to speak with Dickey several times over the years, usually about geopolitical hotspots around the world. Places where his unique reporting skills enabled him to see not only the politics but the cultural heart of what he was reporting on. His reports and books were more than just words and analyses. However, our

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